Tuesday, 27 June 2017

I cannot say why my blood boils when I see these "No Photo" signs plastered all over tee shirt slogans stolen from the internet, but it does. Surely if one doesn't want photos taken, one doesn't hang them on a public street?

I would have asked the owner of the stall about them had he not been too busy trawling the web no doubt in search of further inspiration.

Monday, 26 June 2017

Sunday, 25 June 2017

Well actually no it's not a puzzle as such, more a riddle. Since the nearest bathing boxes are something like three thousand kilometres away, what is it that makes this scene synonymous with the beach for us?

Our beaches are bright too not beige, yet these neat little pieces from the House of Dawes still seem to strike a chord.

Monday, 19 June 2017

Poincianas are at their most beautiful when they are wide, spreading dangling things, which is not something that makes them suitable particularly for street planting.

In Buderim they've been there for decades, lopped and trimmed and just plain stunted presumably because their roots live beneath paved surfaces. They are lovely things when let to run free, but here to be fair to them, they look as though they want to be somewhere else.

Thursday, 15 June 2017

It looks for all the world like an ancient petrol bowser, and to be fair, it is disused, but there are a few clues as to its time scale; decimal currency arrived in 1966 for instance, and unleaded petrol in 1985.

Perhaps I am getting old, and something made in 1985 is in fact terribly ancient to others?

Wednesday, 14 June 2017

I'm not sure, well actually I am sure that the prices are not current, but I am also sure that Phoenix at Brooke Morgan can have you looking like you did in the good old days before you've finished your beer!

Sunday, 11 June 2017

Saturday, 10 June 2017

A nice bit of handrail, installed on a day when the workplace health and safety people were looking the other way. as it doesn't seem to comply with any regulation at all. Good on them, let common sense prevail I say!

Monday, 5 June 2017

There's something very complicated about the price of primary produce in this country. With French cheese retailing here from seventy dollars per kilogram, we can make excuses about distance and freight and duty and so on, but Woombye is just down the road in the same town, and depending on who one listens to, farmers are paid between fifteen and thirty cents per litre of milk and it takes ten litres to make a kilogram of cheese.

Someone, somewhere must have a fund for a rainy day!

Everyone has to make a living of course and hopefully a very good one, but none the less, I'm sad to report that Woombye cheese is priced out of my league. (Except perhaps for very special occasions!)

Sunday, 4 June 2017

What is it that possesses those with conservation agendas that seems to allow them to leave their signs and rusting bikes in public gardens, littering other people's lives? This one has been there long enough for the signs to fade, and while the message may be sincere and even noteworthty, what would they say if those of opposite view started dumping their own bikes in the middle of downtown?

Saturday, 3 June 2017

"Frog and toad" is rhyming slang in these parts for "road" and while I'd like to think this was a representation of a marsh frog, I suspect it's actually a cane toad, one of if not the most invasive of all introduced species in Australia.

Perhaps I should have searched a bit harder for a description. It's a lovely thing no matter.

Friday, 2 June 2017

Yes, it's one of those other strange creatures to be found only in the Antipodes, with the tail of a beaver, the bill of a duck the claws of an anteater there is a case to made that they were constructed from bits from the parts bin.

This one was constructed from ceramic tiles made for the purpose and he swims happily on the pavement in Maleny, just a few hundred metres from the waterhole in which is animate brethren can be found.

Thursday, 1 June 2017

We have rainforest in our own backyard, but this one is a few hundred kilometres away and still an easy drive. The photo was taken as a postcard for Celine and Manu, our friends from France who reminded us every minute they were with us how lucky we were to be living in a country that is seething with living creatures and fascinating flora.

We'd seen eagles and goannas and wallabies and water dragons and had heard whip birds and bell birds and angry drop bears on a walk of just a few hundred metres.

Nature in Australia is a bit like Chuck Norris, you don't go looking for it, it finds you.

This is just one of many photos on today's City Daily Photo theme "nature", the rest of which can be viewed at a gallery at this link.

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The Queensland Sunshine Coast Shires of Noosa and Maroochy merged with Caloundra City on March 15th 2008, and on that day this blog began. A few years later, Noosa left the rest of us to our own devices, but the blog lived on.

One could wax lyrically or even cynically about the beauty and amenity and emerging economics of "The Sunny Coast", but why not let the pictures do the talking?

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